Course Content
This 1-day (4.5 hour) course, targeted towards developers, focuses on creating custom metrics to monitor your applications/services with Splunk Observability Cloud. Learn to instrument applications/services to send in custom metrics that characterize the application of service. Define relevant metadata for your metrics to let you find, filter and aggregate the metrics that you want to chart or alert on. Use instrumentation libraries from client languages(Python) to send data using Open Telemetry. Create charts and custom dashboards to visualize these custom metrics. Create detectors to monitor the metrics to alert when there are any issues with the application or service. This course assumes that you have completed the Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud course. Learn the concepts and apply the knowledge through interactive lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises.
Who should attend
Developers and DevOps
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
Additional courses and/or knowledge in these areas are also highly recommended:
- Ability to use the command line or terminal
- Familiarity with using REST APIs and ability to use cURL
Course Objectives
- Setting the foundation
- Send application Metrics
- Send custom events to Observability Cloud
- Manage metadata
Outline: Ingesting Application Metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud (IAMSIM)
Module 1 – Setting the Foundation
- Identify components of the Splunk Observability Cloud data model
- Discuss the use case for sending in application metrics
- Identify use of org tokens
Module 2 – Ingesting Application Metrics
- Send datapoints using the REST API
- Send metrics from your application using instrumentation libraries for Open Telemetry
- Describe how to send backfilled data using the API
- Describe how to send events using the API
Module 3 – Managing Metadata
- Use the API to query for metrics, dimensions, properties and tags
- Add and modify properties and tags on dimensions